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Friday, May 06, 2011

Printable Science Poems – Parts of a Plant, Parts of a Flower

I mentioned before that the memorization poems that come with Elemental Science are kind of bad. Like the Human Body poem:

“My skeletal system holds me up,

My digestive system takes care of what’s on my plate and cup.”

Yeah, okay. I am homeschooling, in part, because I know my kids deserve at least a bit better. No, okay, a LOT.

Anyway, since we’re doing plants right now, I thought I’d throw in the plant poem. Well, I won’t reprint it here, but trust me: it, too, is characteristically bad. Plus, it only covers STEM, LEAVES and ROOT, when we have learned – thanks to free 3-part cards and booklet at this site – about five basic plant parts. We haven’t started flowers yet, but that poem seems just as bad.

So here’s my version of the two poems, which we are going to use, and you are welcome to use or not, as you wish. It’s not great art (not even my finest moment in kids’ poetry), but I think they will do the trick, educationally speaking. Scroll to the bottom for a link to these poems in printable PDF form.